Amorphous selenium flat panel detectors for digital mammography: Validation of a NPWE model observer with CDMAM observer performance experiments

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 3711-3722

  Segui, Jennifer A ^a   Zhao, Wei ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amorphous selenium; CDMAM phantom; Digital mammography; DQE; Model observer; NPWE; SNR

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; MAMMOGRAPHY; MATCHED FILTERS; OBJECT DETECTION; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PHANTOMS; SELENIUM; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

AMORPHOUS SELENIUM; CDMAM PHANTOM; DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY; MODEL OBSERVER; NPWE;

SIGNAL DETECTION;

SELENIUM;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DIGITAL FILTERING; EXPERIMENTATION; FILTER; FOURIER ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING; MAMMOGRAPHY; NOISE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PARAMETER; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL MODEL; VALIDITY; X RAY ANALYSIS;

EID: 33749397179     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2349689     Document Type: Article

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